If God is truly Love and you are His child then you should have a wonderful life and you should love living the life He has planned you should live. A wonderful God of love and mercy and compassion could not plan a life for His child other than one of love, joy, peace and happiness. It would be contrary to His nature. Would a human father with a loving and kind nature want a rotten life for his child?
                              So now that you see how victorious a life you are meant to live by using God's Word, you need to be shown how to take hold of God's Word in order to use it properly. Since the Word is purely spiritual it cannot be taken hold of in the same way you take hold of sensory, tangible means in the world of human beings. In human life a solution appeals to Reason and Logic. It is either visible to one's senses or acceptable to one's understanding. If we cannot find a solution we tend to despair because we feel defeated. Humanly speaking we feel that we should be able to control the situation. We believe we are our own gods - that the ego should reign supreme. That's why we feel frustrated when we cannot find a solution. We reign through our own ability to reason and that's the velvet trap which holds fast most of mankind:  Reason and Logic on the throne.
             God shines His light on this well-concealed trap when He says:  "Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path." (1).
            To see how we should use God's Word, which does not spring from Reason or Logic but from His own heart, we have to see how our trust in God is developed. Our "faith" or trust must be developed as we get to know God more and more. Remember, God's way of looking at things is completely different to our human reasoning. It is alien to all we have been taught. God tells us that :"My (God's) thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways " (2). So here is how we develop our faith or trust in God:
"Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God"(3).
              In Chapter 8 of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus explains how God's Word is planted in the human heart in order to bring forth, in the same way as seed planted by a farmer in a field, the fruit of the seed in due season. Read Cpt.8,vv.5-15 to see the whole picture. Likewise God's word must be planted well in the human heart in order that one might enjoy whatever fruit that particular seed is meant to bear and the way the seed is planted is by speaking the seed-promise out so that one's ears can actually hear the spoken word. An interesting and vital fact is that we hear with both our outer ear and our inner ear. Do you recall the first time you heard your own voice recorded and played back to you? It sounded totally different to how you heard yourself when you were actually making the recording. That's because as you were recording your words, you heard them first with your inner  ear. When you played them back you heard them from outside of you, with your outer ear. The human ear has two skins, like the skin of a drum. Words rebound from off of those skins. When we speak we first hear the words rebounding from off of our inner eardrum but when we listen to someone else we first hear with the outer eardrum. God planned it that way so each of us could plant in our own heart whatever we chose to say or whatever we chose to accept from others. In the human world the spoken word is the main method of communication. The spoken word comes before the written word. Without the spoken word we would deteriorate rapidly to a much lower standard of living than we enjoy right now. So this is not so alien as we might suppose.
                  So the scripture  re. faith coming by hearing may be understood as follows: "Our ability to trust in God and in His promises and guarantees will increase as we continually speak His word regarding situations into our hearts and as we hear what we speak we are nourishing that seed of God's Word until we can partake of its fruit".  Eventually, like planting seed in the ground and tending it or putting money in the bank continually, we will be able to draw on the fruit of what we planted and nourished and guarded and get our miracle.
               This is so important that God says: "My son, attend to My words, incline thine ear to My sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them and health to all their flesh." (4).
                      He then warns us to watch what we plant in our hearts:  "Keep your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard for out of it flow the issues of life" (5). What we believe is stored in our hearts. What we have been taught has been stored in our hearts. We speak out what we believe in our hearts. We speak out our fears, our concerns, our dreams. If we believe strongly in something we will somehow allow or attract circumstances which will, sooner or later,bring about what we believe in. All too often we have been conditoned to speaking of what we see with our human eye and understand with our reasoning mind and we have continually spoken words of fear and failure over ourselves without realizing we were contributing so much to our own future failures. Look at what Job said when tragedy struck: "What I always feared has come upon me" (6).  We, however, as God's New Testament children must echo Pauls' exhortation and, "Fix our thoughts on what is true and good and right " (7) and speak words into our lives which uplift us and enable us to trust more and more in our Heavenly Father since Jesus so clearly pointed out:
     "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks . . .by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned." (8).
 
 

                   Personal Affirmation
       " If I Can't Speak Good, I'll Shut My Mouth 'Til I Can."

Footnotes
1:  Prov.3:5,6.
2: Isaiah55:8.
3:  Rom.10:17
4: Prov.4:20-22.
5:  Prov.4:23 (Ampl.+KJV.)
6: Job3:25.
7: Phil.4:8.
8: Matthew12:34,37.
9: 1Peter3:10.
10: Colossians3:16.